Figures croisées d'intellectuels

Figures croisées d'intellectuels

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Publisher: KARTHALA Editions

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 2845868669

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Tout discours visant à appréhender les intellectuels constitue un défi majoré, pour peu qu'une telle tentative se trouve conduite par les membres de ce groupe d'appartenance. Par la pluralité de ses figures, de ses trajectoires, de ses postures et de ses lieux d'actions, l'intellectuel intervient dans l'espace public, lieu de débats et condition nécessaire pour son existence et ses activités. Qu'il appartienne à l'élite ou qu'il soit qualifié de populaire, l'intellectuel est un acteur, un sujet agissant par le biais de ses productions polymorphes fondées le plus souvent sur un savoir critique. Celles-ci ont en commun de porter sur l'orientation des sociétés concernées, d'intervenir dans la vie de la Cité. Dans quelle mesure des intellectuels appartenant à différentes traditions linguistiques ou aux mêmes traditions partagent-ils des repères épistémologiques analogues ? Quelles sont les incidences de la mondialisation sur leurs productions scientifiques ? Comment se positionnent-ils dans les différents espaces d'expérimentation parfois douloureuse de la démocratie ? Etre un intellectuel dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales, signifie-t-il détenir, sans en avoir le monopole, un rôle prépondérant au plan éthique dans l'exigence et l'intention de vérité, dans la posture critique, la pratique du dialogue et la reconnaissance de l'autre ? S'appuyant sur des recherches empiriques effectuées en Afrique, en Europe, en Asie, le livre propose de cerner diverses figures contemporaines d'intellectuels, leur rôle aussi bien dans la jonction de leurs sociétés avec le reste du monde, que dans les constructions abouties ou non d'une sphère autonome du pouvoir politique.


Migration in a Globalised World

Migration in a Globalised World

Author: Cédric Audebert

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9089641572

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This broad thematic study offers a major new research perspective on international migration in the context of globalisation.


The Dynamics of Living Systems

The Dynamics of Living Systems

Author: Thomas Lecuit

Publisher: Collège de France

Published: 2020-11-16

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 2722605600

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How can we explain the fundamental paradox of living matter, which combines stability and robustness of form with constant internal dynamics? It is not only the genetic information contained in every cell, but also numerous stochastic biomolecular processes that are at work in morphogenesis. In addition, the shaping of an organism is driven by mechanical forces that operate within and between cells, across tissues and organs. The dynamics of morphogenesis is a self-organized process that emerges from biological control and physical constraints at all scales. Its study is currently bringing together a fast-growing interdisciplinary community that observes, analyses and models living organisms.


Migration Patterns Across the Mediterranean

Migration Patterns Across the Mediterranean

Author: Adelina Miranda

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1800887353

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With contributions from leading scholars in Southern Europe, this compelling book demonstrates the plurality of migratory circumstances and analyses the significance of the Mediterranean migration model. Highlighting the challenges of studying the variability and heterogeneity of migratory patterns in the Mediterranean, this insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of the variations of spatial-temporal scales and sedimentation of different migratory configurations.


Innovation Policy and Performance A Cross-Country Comparison

Innovation Policy and Performance A Cross-Country Comparison

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9264006737

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This publication examines the relationship between innovation policy and economic performance in six OECD countries – Austria, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In-depth analyses highlight countries’ strengths and ...


Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space

Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space

Author: Mette Louise Berg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 131763571X

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The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis. A key aspect of neoliberal thought is the belief that we live in a ‘post-racial’ in which the problems of racism and xenophobia have been overcome. However, cultural retrenchment and coded xenophobia have been sweeping the political terrain, accompanied by ‘new racisms’ and ‘new racial subjects’ that only close contextual analysis can unpick. The scholarship contained in this collection challenges those who suggest that we live in a post-racial time. By focusing on particular locations in Britain at a particular moment, the volume explores local stories of ‘race’ and racism across changing sociopolitical ground. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of race, racism, diaspora, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, transnationalism and post-race. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.


Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East

Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East

Author: Myriam Ababsa

Publisher: American University in Cairo Press

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1617973513

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Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focussing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions with state apparatus specifically located within the urban space. The book adopts a praxeological approach to law that describes how inhabitants define and exercise their legality in practice and daily routines. The ambition of the volume is to restore the continuum in the consolidation, building after building, of the popular neighborhoods of the cities under study, while demonstrating the closely-knit social relationships and other forms of community bonding.


Informal Politics

Informal Politics

Author: John Christopher Cross

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0804730628

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As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. This book looks at street vending as a political process in the largest city in the world.